When I received my cancer diagnosis a few weeks back, it felt like I had landed in a different country—a different planet, even. I wasn’t scared of my new surroundings—I was surrounded by kind and caring medical professionals who successfully convinced me that the prognosis with their recommended treatment was good—but I could tell that I was massively unprepared to be in this new place.

As Anglicans who are trying to honor the season of Advent, I thought I’d share a few of the things that we’re doing this season in lieu of putting up our tree on Thanksgiving day—not that there’s anything wrong with that! In fact, my kids have asked if we can put the tree up *this* weekend and since they’ll be on a camping trip *next* weekend—which is when I had planned to put it up—we’ll probably do just that. But my early December decorating